Archive for category Culture
Caribisch Koninkrijk
Alexandra Valkenburg
13 Jul 2017
Als ik in de oude Chevrolet stap, zie ik het vlaggetje van Bonaire direct liggen. Ik vraag de chauffeur hoe hij die gekregen heeft. ‘Van de delegatie van Bonaire’, zegt […]
Terug naar Babylon
Jan van Weijen, Iraq
6 Apr 2017
Na 30 jaar ging plaatsvervangend ambassadeur Jan van Weijen (Bagdad) met collega’s Afrah, Mustafa en Oleg beveiligd door 8 manschappen van de Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten (BSB) terug naar Babylon. In […]
Fietsers zijn durfals in Tirana
Dewi van de Weerd, Albania
29 Jan 2017
Als ik op de fiets aan kom rijden, hartje winter in meditteraan Tirana, kijken de bewakers van de ambassade verbaasd op. “Respect”, roept éen van hen. Of het niet veel […]
Sinterklaas: liefdadigheid (anoniem)
Robert Schuddeboom, Netherlands, Turkey
5 Oct 2016
De zomervakantie van 2016 brachten mijn vrouw Kim en ik door aan de zuidkust van Turkije. Voor een week verbleven we in Patara, een plaats die op de kandidaatslijst van […]
World Heritage
Robert Schuddeboom
18 Aug 2016
It is thanks to Turkey and Asian tourists that I started to better appreciate the UNESCO World Heritage Sites’ concept. Asian tourists often let these sites inspire them for holiday […]
CROSSING BORDERS / CROSSING BOUNDARIES
Hans Wesseling, Russia, St.Petersburg
8 Jul 2016
Two years ago decided Dmitry Zaitsev, director of HPL factory in a far district of Rzhevka in St. Petersburg to reorganize the vacant space of his factory site into a […]
Social Media, diplomats and Turkey
Robert Schuddeboom, Turkey
13 Nov 2015
No tweet, no result; no picture, no meeting; no #hashtag, no professionalism. Blogging is hip, infographics are already mainstream and every respectable company has a CDO (Chief Digital Officer). I […]
Pera Palace – fin de siècle in 2015
Robert Schuddeboom, Turkey
4 Nov 2015
My wedding ring? I gave it to my wife in Pera Palace. Where else? Several of my blogs are about the rapid modernization of Istanbul’s infrastructure. Istanbul however is also […]
A Dutch Chapel in Istanbul
Robert Schuddeboom, Turkey
19 Sep 2015
Strolling down the busy Istikal Caddesi, as every day 1-2 million people do, you might not notice a small chapel hidden behind the walls of the Dutch Consulate General, part […]
World Press Photo: a partner in Dutch human rights policy
Robert Schuddeboom, Turkey
7 Sep 2015
Who doesn’t know the picture of a man standing in front of a tank at the Tiananmen Square or the one showing a little girl running away after a napalm […]
Surprising Istanbul: a timeless city
Robert Schuddeboom, Turkey
1 Jun 2015
‘Either I conquer Constantinople or Constantinople conquers me,’ Fatih Sultan Mehmet II, the seventh Ottoman Sultan, once said. He was a key figure in the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, […]
Dutch Design & Music
Hugo Von Meijenfeldt, United States
21 May 2015
Zahid Sardar, guest curator of the Museum for Crafts and Design of San Francisco, and already known to us for his books “100 Best Bikes” and “The Dutch Bike,” has […]
